Saturday, 28 June 2008, 12:13
"Near the end of an otherwise unremarkable interview with Vanity Fair editor Graydon Carter and Rolling Stone editor Jann Wenner ... PBS' Charlie Rose slipped in this little question..."
Friday, 27 June 2008, 15:16
Student journalist rips Northcliffe's (older) regional newspaper sites...
Friday, 27 June 2008, 15:14
"We are really excited to announce that we have just integrated with Twitter. What that means is that when you make a prediction on Hubdub you can then immediately drop it into your Twitter stream."
Friday, 27 June 2008, 11:48
The full report is now avilable from the Medill Journalism School team studying the impact of location-based technologies on journalism.
Thursday, 26 June 2008, 12:18
"Top Gear (the show and magazine) are using wordpress for their web presence."
Thursday, 26 June 2008, 11:18
Interesting PCC ruling that could have future implications for newspapers' geotagging efforts. Also interesting because the existence of a Wikipedia article is part of the justification for allowing newspapers to report information.
Thursday, 26 June 2008, 06:48
"[M]ore than two out of four people in my newsroom are getting bought out or fired by the end of the summer. ... No getting around this fact: It’s going to be pretty hard to produce a product that doesn’t totally suck with that kind of job-slashing. "
Wednesday, 25 June 2008, 22:24
Bloggers from Shiny Media's Catwalk Queen were interviewed for Panorama's Primark story, but weren't credited. Instead, videos were credited to YouTube.
Wednesday, 25 June 2008, 22:13
"The UK has one of the planet’s more granular postcoding systems, with each of the nation’s 1.8m individual postcodes covering on average 15 houses. In IT terms, that’s a remarkably accurate piece of geocoding data..."
Wednesday, 25 June 2008, 21:09
"Amazon has come closer to creating the newspaper of the future than any newspaper company." (shame about the shocking apostrophe in the headline)
Wednesday, 25 June 2008, 20:46
"It is understood [mayor Boris] Johnson is trying to get round the setback [to his crime mapping plan] by tailoring the scheme to satisfy the [infomration commissoner]".
Wednesday, 25 June 2008, 09:14
"When we journalists talk about integration we generally mean, integrating print and online activities. But the true integration comes online itself. The integration between journalists and citizens."
Tuesday, 24 June 2008, 21:48
Kevin Marsh: 'journalists have always been far more entranced by 'the story' than audiences. Less than a quarter of newspaper readers claim to read to the end of a story, even one they're interested in ."
Tuesday, 24 June 2008, 21:42
Long-expected new site getting close...